Island



(No Model.) J. P. WHITE.

COTTON CAN.

No."558,135. PaJ-tetedp. 14",r 1896.;

WITNESEEE. T .INVENTUR V 1 I I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOI-IN F. IVHITE, OF PROYIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND COTTON-CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0`f"Letters Patent No. 558,135, dated April 14, 1896.v

Application filed January 27, 1896. Serial No. 577,062. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN F. WHITE, of the city and county of Providence, in the Statelof Rhode Island, have made a certain new and useful Improvement in Cotton-Cans; and I declare the following to be a specication thereof, reference being` had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to the cans used in cotton mills for holding the roving or sliver of cotton as it comes from the carding-ma chines, drawing-rolls, and other Inachines. It is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, `in which- Figure l represents a can in elevation. Fig. 2 shows a vertical cross-section of the lower part of the can, taken through the center to show the construction of the bottom. Fig. 3 shows a like portion of a can as it is usually made. 4 v

The object of the invention is Vto avoid the rigidity of the construction of the bottom of the can as it is usually made, which is the main cause of its destruction, for the bottom is the first to give out from the necessary hauling and thumping it has to undergo in being moved from one machine to another in use.

The construction is as follows: A is the shell or body of the can, usually made of sheet metal. B is the bottom soldered to the shell A and made a little conical in the center to make it stiffer. A collar CZ is made with a bottom ring and an upright flange that has the same outside diameter as the body A of the can. A band s is put on over the flange of the collar CZ and the body Aand made fast to both by soldering or otherwise. Another collar n, same as collar d, inverted in position, is made so as to slide in the collar d, and a ring h, of india-rubber, is put in the chamber between the bottom of the can and the top of the collar n. By this arrangement the shock of the bottom of the collar fn, coming in contact with the floor as the can is moved around, is deadened before it reaches the real bottom of the can and the soldered joints are not thereby broken and the can spoiled.

Having thus described my improvement, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination With the bottom of a roving-can, of a collar consisting of a vertical flange and a horizontal ring or plate, a band to secure the said collar to the can, a collar consisting of a top plate and avertical fiange fitted to slide in the collar attached to the band, a ring of indiarubber placed between the two collars, substantially as described.

JOHN F. WHITE.

fitnesses HARMON S. BABcooK, WILLIAM E. GOEMAN. 

